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Was Gov. Chris Christie in the dark on the bridge scandal? New Jersey voters may think so

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering in Union City, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. A top aide to Christie is linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in a town at the base of the George Washington Bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election.
(AP Photo/Mel Evans)

In the poll conducted by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, a full 50 percent of respondents believed Christie's statement that he did not know that top aide Bridget Anne Kelly, who has since been fired, called for the closure of three lanes on George Washington Bridge as a potential form of political payback to the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee.